Spielberg: "Filmmakers Are Braver in Bush's Second Term"

[gauguin57]

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Spielberg: "Filmmakers Are Braver in Bush's Second Term"

Steven Spielberg believes politically charged movies have become Increasingly popular during George W. Bush's presidency, because film-makers are keen to distance themselves from his policies. The director is currently courting controversy with his Oscar-nominated film Munich - which focuses on the aftermath of terrorist action at the 1972 Olympic Games - and feels the Republican administration is not representing his interests. He says, "Maybe I shouldn't get into this. I just feel that filmmakers are much more proactive since the second Bush administration. I think that everybody is trying to declare their independence and state their case for the things that we believe in. No one is really representing us, so we're now representing our own feelings, and we're trying to strike back."

I dunno if it's cuz of Bush's second term, but there have been some good, serious movies out this year that challenge the BushFans' Status Quo

[tedzbear]

1. I saw both Munich and Syriana...

and they are both excellent, but nerve racking. The screenplay for Munich was cowritten by Tony Kushner of Angels in America fame.

[Cha]

6. That's interesting to

know!

[sui generis]

9. I've lost the will to see Munich as a depiction of history

after I heard the real interviews of the real people who were there and how different and less conflicted with questions of morality their thinking was. It may be good character drama but I'll have to watch it with a bucket of salt.

Ah well, Four Feathers didn't do much in the way of illuminating any truth about French history either, yet there are still people whose entire knowledge of France is derived from that movie.

[Mythsaje]

2. Not just movies...

odd little spots on TV shows keep popping up.

Last night on Gilmore Girls Lorelei was talking about how her dog was afraid of his leash..."you have to hide it and not let him see you put it on him. He's like a real American, taking his freedom away is all right as long as he doesn't see it coming." Or something like that.

Cracked me up.

That's not the only show I've seen it on recently. There have been a lot of jabs, even on shows you wouldn't necessarily expect.

[AX10]

3. TV too.

[Contrary1]

4. I don't think Boston Legal can get through an episode,

without at least one very obvious jab.
Makes me like the show all the more.

[StClone]

7. Isn't that one of its appeals?

Boston Legal is a show worth viewing for its zany, even campy, vignettes that often segue into a bitting political jabs at Cons/Pubs/NeoCons. Spader's character developed a social consciousness to counter Shatner's brain dead Conservatism.

[Cha]

8. I've heard jabs on Crossing Jordon,

CSI, and Law and Order!

[AzDar]

5. Did you EVER think American Citizens would be speaking this

way about an American (P)resident? In hushed, fearful tones?
In the Soviet Union under Stalin; Germany in the 1930's, maybe..but HERE????
McCarthyism on Steroids, this little patch of history...